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...fact, sending the cost to your term bill is the default option. If wayward partygoers do any damage to your dorm room, you’ll be covered at the end of the year. Mom and Dad will cover the holes in the walls, excessive spills on the carpet, and the dead Newfoundland in your shower, as all repairs are term-billed. No country club would be complete without drugs. You can get lots of them from University Health Services (UHS). And rest assured, all pharmacy items can be paid for with the term bill. But perhaps the best...
...Nelson”; Peter O’Toole, “Venus”; Will Smith, “The Pursuit of Happyness”; Forest Whitaker, “The Last King of Scotland”While big stars like Will and Leo will draw plenty of red carpet attention, the real race lies between two performances in much smaller films. O’Toole, who received a lifetime-achievement Oscar but has never won for a performance, collected serious kudos for the early-May-late-December-romance dramedy “Venus.” However, his lack...
...frivolous, gossip-hungry magazine “US Weekly.” By altering parts of the magazine’s text and inserting opposing images, Wasserman creates poignant juxtapositions. One page, entitled “Puttin’ on the Glitz” shows a photograph of red carpet-ready Eva Longoria and the following text: “Iraqi citizen, it condemned Dell’Acqua with black and white diamonds attack that had left twenty-three children dead.” The combination of the original text referring to Longoria’s exorbitant dress...
...Iran's embassy in Damascus - its fa?ade covered in blue tiles arranged like a Persian carpet - is the largest Iranian diplomatic post in the Middle East, and a source of no small amount of intrigue and fascination. It often plays host to the likes of Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Hamas leader Khaled Meshal. And, according to U.S. and Israeli intelligence, it's also where Iran organizes its arms shipments into Lebanon and the rest of the Levant...
...Carib Theater in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1972. A crowd of some 10,000 turned up and a near-riot ensued. Like all those who got in, the island's Prime Minister and his wife were jammed two or more to a seat, while instead of a red carpet entrance, director Perry Henzell's wife, Sally, had to be bodily lifted in over the heads of the crowd. Just 6 at the time, Henzell's daughter Justine wasn't allowed to attend, even though some of her earliest memories are of being on set while her father shot the film that...